Psalms 31:16
Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me by Your loving devotion.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
In Context
15My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
Cross References
Psalms 3:8Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
Psalms 6:4Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 80:3Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Psalms 80:19Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Daniel 9:9To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:10-19
Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord , for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken… Read the whole commentary →